A Little Condolence – For Ann Marie

Cost cannot measure loss.

Its measure must be naught:

Diurnal

The kiss of sunrise is a blackbird’s song,
Slices of cheese and pear the kiss of noon.

The dreamy kiss of night plays overlong,
Its images at odds unstrung bestrewn…

Rehab

Out of military arms
falls the boyish soldier.

Noting a Carnivore

No harm in tryin’
from a distance,
but charming The Lion
frustrates persistence.

Nodding Off

A bed accepts us when the wind will not.
As we seek our repose, heaped fabrics yield,

Gulf Coast

Wrapped in their sheet,
a woman and man

Across a Gulf

Do sails in shades of haze,
where you are, father,

Traveler

His plane arrived at dusk
while he sat reading.